{"id":1782,"date":"2008-01-07T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2008-01-07T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T22:38:58","slug":"candidates-views-on-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/07\/candidates-views-on-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates' Views on Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a New York Times article What is it About Mormonism?<\/a>, the following lines which made me guffaw: <\/p>\n

The framers recognized, of course, that a candidate’s religion (or lack thereof) would enter political debate, and they were prohibiting only a formal test for taking office. But they were also giving their imprimatur to Jefferson’s appealing notion that a person’s beliefs about religion were no more relevant to his politics than his beliefs about geometry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leaving aside jokes about the candidates debating whether the universe is open, flat, or closed, I’m guessing that the Renaissance man Jefferson would actually have cared quite profoundly about a candidate’s mastery of geometry.
\nUpdate:<\/b> See this is exactly a case of extralusionary intelligence<\/a>: Wim points out in the comments that the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom<\/a> included not just a reference not just to religion mattering no more than view on geometry, but also views on physics. Oh Thomas, why have you forsaken me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a New York Times article What is it About Mormonism?, the following lines which made me guffaw: The framers recognized, of course, that a candidate’s religion (or lack thereof) would enter political debate, and they were prohibiting only a formal test for taking office. But they were also giving their imprimatur to Jefferson’s appealing … <\/p>\n

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